Gone With The Wind

PROFILE

Composer

Allie Wrubel

Lyricist

Herb Magidson

Year Written

1937

About Gone With The Wind

Alec Wilder notes in American Popular Song about “these exceptional songs from competent but unexceptional writers fascinate and plague me. For if they could write one sensitive, inventive, exceptional song, why not more?” Wrubel and Magidson may be lost to songwriting history, save this rather wonderful song with its timeless feel.

Lyrics

It was only yesterday I thought love had come to stay
But just like a bird in flight, love has vanished overnight
And now it’s

Gone with the wind, just like a leaf that has blown away.
Gone with the wind, my romance has flown away.

Yesterday’s kisses are still on my lips,
I had a lifetime of heaven at my fingertips.

But now all is gone, gone is the rapture that thrilled my heart.
Gone with the wind, the gladness that filled my heart
Just like a flame, love burned brightly
Then became an empty smoke dream that has gone,
Gone with the wind.